creating no waste

- Food scraps, contaminated paper and other biodegradable products, like the straws from the SLF food vendors are all compostable.

- The Festival’s composting installation will mix collected compostable material with mulch, which helps reduce odour and acts as a carbon-bulking agent. At the end of the Festival the skip will be transported to Natural Recovery Systems where it will be converted into compost for supply to nurseries and garden supply stores.

- In 2006 1.5 tonnes of organic waste from the Festival was converted into compost. Organic waste in landfill decays anaerobically (starved of oxygen) and produces methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

Composting is easy. On average 50% of household waste is organic material derived from food and garden waste, which can be composted, SO GET COMPOSTING!!

- The Festival uses composting toilets, which use no water. This is a great advantage during this time of water restrictions and shortages.

By combining human toilet deposits with a carbon based bulking material, (sawdust) and oxygen, a once environmental and health issue becomes a magnificent soil conditioner.

The toilet waste from the Festival is transported to a holding station where it will stay for approximately six months until suitable to be used as compost.

In their own words Natural Events,  our composting toilet contractor, are ‘changing the world from the bottom up’.

- The Festival selects products with high-recycled content, including site signage materials and paper stocks.

- The Festival reuses second hand plastic signage materials from other events. Have a look closely you may have seen some of our signs at the Commonwealth Games from 2006.